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Just four months before Eddie Bisch’s death from an Oxycontin overdose in February 2001, he and his father posed for a photo in October 2000. In 2001, Ed Bisch heard the word OxyContin for the first time, standing outside his home in Philadelphia. Inside, his son, 18-year-old Eddie Bisch, lay dead in his bed from an overdose of the […]

A syringe full of red blood sits on a concrete street barrier underneath an expressway off-ramp near 181st Street and Amsterdam Avenue in Washington Heights. Photo by Razi Syed. In May 2018, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced four safe injection sites would be built across New York. Nearly a year later, while the opioid crisis rages on, the sites […]

Angela Tennell keeps a photo of her son David Neering, who died of a drug overdose in 2016 after years or dealing with an opioid addiction. Photo by Li Cohen As red and blue waves continue clashing in Florida in the race for the governor’s mansion this November, a hurricane of people in the general public are fighting for the […]

The year has been a year fraught with political turmoil for much of the United States, with major changes on the horizon for many families and communities across the country. What better place to uncover and tell those stories than the epicenter of American policymaking? This year’s Reporting the Nation/Reporting New York students trekked to our nation’s capital to do […]

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“On the 18th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, minorities in New York City remembered the day that changed their lives forever.” Read @bessiel_ story on pavementpieces.com #september11 #journalism @nyu_journalism

“Human canvases stood outside Armageddon, a graffiti and hip hop influenced shop in the heart of Bushwick.” It’s Friday the 13th, a day you can get inked for cheap in #nyc Read Thomas Hengee’s story at pavementpieces.com #tattoo @armageddontattz #fridaythe13th